Syracuse, NY – A Syracuse police officer used a Taser to subdue a suspect he said threatened him with a 2-by-6 plank early Monday.

Here’s what happened, according to a police report of the incident:

The officer stopped about 12:14 a.m. Monday to investigate a fight between two men that he saw at 2338 S. Salina St. As the officer approached, one of the men grabbed a large, wooden board. The man refused the officer’s command to drop the plank, ran up a driveway and swung the board in the officer’s direction. He then dropped the board and ran behind a building.

The officer fired two Taser shots that missed and the man ran to a back yard on Webster Avenue. There he disobeyed police orders to get on the ground. The officer fired the Taser again. The probes hit the man on the chest and he was taken into custody without further incident.

Police charged Casper Booker, 50, of 119 Hope Ave., with second-degree assault, a felony, plus misdemeanor counts of second-degree menacing, fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon and resisting arrest, and disorderly conduct, a violation. He was being held this morning without bail at the Justice Center Jail, jail records show.

The man with whom he had been fighting, Glenn Evans, 47, of 227 McKinley Ave., was charged with disorderly conduct, police said. Both were evaluated at the scene by a Rural/Metro ambulance crew.